VccSSe – Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education Virtual Instruments and Tools in Sciences Education - Experiences and Perspectives 51 THE USE OF VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS IN SCIENCE TOPICS TEACHING PROCESS FROM THE VIEW OF TEACHERS’ FEEDBACK R. L. OLTEANU *,1 , C. DUMITRESCU 1 , L. M. GORGHIU 1 and G. GORGHIU 2 1 Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Valahia University Targoviste, 18-24 Unirii Boulevard, 130082 Targoviste, Romania 2 Electrical Engineering Faculty, Valahia University Targoviste, 18-24 Unirii Boulevard, 130082 Targoviste, Romania Abstract: The virtual instrumentation can be used in the educational contexts for simulating the real phenomena which are taking place in different systems. Aims and goals in Sciences school subjects focus on competences of scientific information processing, research skills, and also humanistic values. In this sense methodology highly recommended is centred on inquiry based learning, experiential learning, discovery based learning. This paper presents some aspects concerning the impact of virtual experiments implementation in the teaching/learning process on different topics of the Sciences area in Dambovita County (Romania), based on the results collected from 24 Romanian in-service teachers who attended the “Virtual Instrumentation in Science Education” training modules, organised in the frame of the three years Socrates Comenius 2.1 European Project VccSSe - Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education (http://vccsse.ssai.valahia.ro , project no. 128989-CP-1-2006-1-RO-COMENIUS-C21) co-funded by the European Commission, Education and Training, School Education: Socrates: Comenius [1]. Keywords: virtual instrumentation; virtual experiment; teachers’ feedback; assessment tools; Comenius 2.1 Project 1. Introduction ICT represent an incontestable presence in the educational environment. It provides many possibilities of using for the modernization and the improvement of teaching and learning process, increasing at the same time the quality of education [2]. The education process should be widely assisted by new technologies which allow for the common usage of multimedia, such as the computer, projector, interactive board, etc. It is essential to use * Corresponding author: e-mail: r_olteanu@yahoo.com